Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent. ~Bill Gates
If you’re local or even in Oregon, you know that last Saturday, our community lost a true hero, husband, brother, uncle, friend and so much more to so many people, organizations, and elected officials. You’ve likely seen many a tribute. In mine, I mentioned an article Bill gave me in 1996 that is still on top of my desk.
The article is an old pre-conference mail survey for the Agility Forum. The then president of the Agility Forum said, “As of yet, no one company or industry is truly agile in all eight kinds of change, if any,” said Aris Melissaratos, Industry President, Agility Forum. Bill thought I’d enjoy the article in one meeting with me because it was clear that I sometimes like change for changes sake. That hasn’t changed in all these years.
The eight agile kinds of change were build something new, increase/decrease existing resource mix, add/delete resource types, change relationships, event-based change of concepts, real-time operating surprise, continuous incremental upgrades and reincorporate corrected failures or alternatives. I think we do this at United Way and have done it since I read the piece Bill gave me. We shared many years of sending articles back and forth that we found interesting, challenging, or thought-provoking. This one stuck.
Find the person in your life that gives you the article that sticks.
Peaceful journey my friend.
Onward.
